figure out
Example Sentences
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“Some days I can’t figure out the two of you at all,” she said.
From Literature
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“A lot of countries visit the Olympiatoppen to figure out: What are the Norwegians doing?” said Thomas Haugen, a Norwegian professor who has researched the training methods of the country’s endurance athletes.
She needs to figure out how to wrangle it.
From Los Angeles Times
You run a bunch of tests to figure out the problem, and when you discover the solution isn’t in the documentation, you develop a novel workaround.
When their mother died in 2024, Guinnip and his siblings agreed to keep the trust as is and figure out the rest later.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.